Big Brother Duties

This was the list of duties I had to complete each live day:

·         Sweep office

·         Tea run – check throughout day

·         Check live office fridge is stocked with drinks – check throughout day

·         Change bins, recycle bin and confidential waste – check throughout day

·         Read the days papers to see if there are any articles on Big Brother or any of its contestants. If there area then cut out and place in a dated plastic sleeve

·         Prep snacks for the morning meeting - sweets, cakes and fruit

·         Prep box of drinks for the morning meeting – water, energy drinks, tea and coffee

·         Set up meeting room with snack, drinks and laptops and speakers

·         Sign out runner walkies and give out lunch tokens

·         Take lunch orders for production office crew (to be done before the morning meeting)

·         Go and get office crew lunches – REMEMBER RECIPTS

·         Collect plates and cutlery from the kitchen to keep in the office

·         Check there is enough paper in the stationary cupboard for the script run – yellow paper. When there are 2 shows then use blue and yellow paper

·         Make sure walkie desk is stocked with snacks - check throughout day

·         Sign all crew walkies out

·         Put spare batteries on charge for walkies

·         Help with script run

·         Distribute scripts (Live gallery x 11, Reality gallery x2, Sound x2, Senior Cabin x2 Channel 5 Cabin x2, Edit x1, Lighting x6 running orders only)

·         Shredding when it’s quite

·         Collect dinner menu from canteen

·         Get runner dinner orders

·         Take production office dinner orders – keep checking until you get an answer

·         Place order with canteen for runner dinners to be collected at 6:15

·         Go out and collect or order dinner for production office staff and the guys in the edit – REMEMBER RECIEPTS

·         Give everyone their dinners

o   Radio runners to tell them to come and eat when they are free

o   Put production office dinners on plates and give out individually

·         Collect dirt plates and wash up

·         When show starts start tidying the office

o   Sweep the office

o   Change the bins

o   Shred the confidential waste

o   Get rid of leftover food

o   Wash up

·         Sign all walkies back in

·         Let Katie know if not all walkied are signed back in by 11